Seal-lock.



P. STOREY.

- SEAL LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 14, 1915.

1,173,056. Patented Feb. 22,1916.

INVENTOR A TTOHIVEYS FTQ.

PAUL STOREY, OF TAFT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

SEAL-LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

Application filed October 14, 1915. Serial no. 55,838.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL STOREY, .a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Taft,'in the Province of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seal-Locks, of which the following is a specification;

My invention relates to seals for the doors of railway freight cars, and some of the main objects thereof are to provide such devices which are quickly and easily sealed, wherein there is no possibility of removing the sealing medium without destroying the same, which are highly efiicient, and which are comparatively inexpensive.

My invention is fully describedin the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a car door and the frame therefor, with my invention in sealedposition; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary face view showing the manner of applying the sealing medium; Fig. 4 is an edge view of the tool which I employ for applying the seal; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the sealing medium; Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 is a sectiontaken on the line77 of Fig.1.

In the drawings forming a part of this application I have shown, fragmentarily, the side 7 of a car and its door 8, upon each of which a portion of my device is arranged.

A base block 9 is held on the side of the car by means of a bolt 10 provided with an angular head 11 resting in a similarly formed recess 12 in the block 9; the block 9 is provided with a plurality of projections 13 extended into the side of the car, Fig. 2, and it will be obvious that, when the nut 14 of the bolt is tightened, said block cannot move with respect to the side of the car and said bolt cannot rotate with respect to said block. The block 9 is provided with four upwardly extending arcuate flange members 15, 16, 17,

and 18, arranged concentric with the axis of the bolt 10 and producing radial passages 19, 20, 21, and 22, between the respective flange members at quadrant points as shown, said flange members producing a circular recess 23 within the same.

Held by a bolt 24, adjacent tothe block 9, is a staple 25 arranged in'the horizontal I plane of thecenter of the block 9, the opening through said staple thus being transverse to the said horizontal plane, but this staple is not an essential part of the invention and is shown to indicate an arbitrary use of the device, or rather an alternate or supplemental use thereof.

An eye-bolt 26 is held in the door 8 and serves as a pivot for a hasp 27 which com prises a relatively'thin portion 28, a thick- 1 ened portion 29, and a handle portion 30, the

The inner surfaces of these raised portions 29 are grooved adjacent the floor ofthe recess 31, and the inner surfaces of the said flange members are similarly grooved adjacent the floor of the recess 23, Fig. 7, the former grooves being shown at 32 and the latter'grooves at 33, these grooves registering with each other to form a substantially continuous groove intercepted by the radial passages 20 and 22. t

The sealing medium or element consists of a metal disk 34 of an external diameter approximating the internal diameter of the combined recesses 23 and 31 and into which said disk is designed to be forced. The disk 34 is provided with two ribbon members 35 and 36 arranged at diametrically opposite points, and with arcuate raised flanges 37 extending, each, from one ribbon to the other, these flanges 37 being of approximately the same height as the flange members of the base block and as the height of the portions 29 0f the hasp.

As stated, the hasp is arranged in the passages 19 and 21 and in the groove connecting the same shown in Fig. 7, and I provide downwardly directed lugs 38 on the under side of the hasp for preventing longitudinal movement of said hasp with respect to the block 9, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. When the hasp is in position within the base block 9 one of the disks 34 is inserted into the space formed by the recesses 23 and 31, the ribbon members 35 and 36 being arranged in the radial passages 20 and 22, the exterior surfaces of the flanges 37 bearing on the inner surfacesof the flange members 15, f6,

17, and 18, and of the portions 29 of the 1;

of the crimper from the outside edge of one roller 43 to the. outside edge of the other roller is two thicknesses less, of the tin or combined recesses 23 and 31, whereby said other material of which the flanges 37 are made, than the maximum diameter of the crimper is revolved with respect to the base p block. The inner ends of the radial passages 20 and 22 are slightly flared', as shown at 44, Fig. 3, to admit the crimper, this u p h members spaced to form passages therebeflaring occurring at the spaces between the respective ends of the flanges '3'? of the sealing element. When the flanges have been thus crimped, the crimper is removed and no outward movement of the hasp with respect to the base block 9 is possible except by the destruction of the sealing medium, and I may, if desired, stamp any suitable matter on the sealing disk or on its ribbons to identify the same to preventunauthorized substitution of one sealing element byanother except by making such substitution manifest. If desired, the ribbon members 35 and 36 may be passed through the opening of the staple 25 and sealed together in the conventional manner by means ofthe lead seal 45. .When it is desired to open the car door, all that is necessary is to apply outward force to the handle of the hasp 27, this tending to force the relatively thin sealing element upwardly through the radial passages 19 and 21 and rendering the same utterly unfit for further use, and it will be understood that the proper railway oflicials will be provided with a stock of the sealing elements, each, as well aswith a crimper.

My invention is very simple though highly eflicient and, while I have shown a present preferred form, it will be obvious that changes may be made therein to meet different conditions, within the scope of the following claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing its ad vantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A seal lock, comprising a base block having a circular recess the wall of which is peripherally grooved, a hasp resting in said Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents aomhy addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 3

provided for crimping the said groove.

recess, and a sealing element in said recess above said hasp having a. flange crimped into said groove,

2. A seal lock, comprising a base block having a circular recess the wall of which is peripherally grooved, a hasp resting in said recess, means for preventing movement of saidhasp laterally of said block, and a sealing element in said recess for preventing re moval of said hasp from said prevention means provided with "a flange crimped into 3. A seal lock, comprising a base block having 'a circular recess formed by flange members spaced toio'rm passagestherebe tween, and peripherally grooved, on their inner surfaces, a hasp resting in saidrece'ss and inthe respective passages, and a sealing element insai'd recess above said hasp;pro-

vided with a flange crimped into 's'aid grooves. p

4. A seal lock,]compris ing a baseblock having a circular recess formed by, flange tween and peripherally grooved "on their i .of the ad acent flange members, and Ta} sealing element in both' said recess-and between said raised members; provided with a flange crimped into said grooves.

.5. A seal lock,

members spaced apart to form passages therebetween and peripherally grooved on their inner surfaces, a hasp resting in said recess and in the respective passages, 'procomprising baseibloc'k having a circula'nrecess formed byjflange vided with raised portions grooved in their inner surfaces toform a continiioiisgroove with those of said, flange members, and ,a

sealing element provided with a' 'fiange crimped into sa1d'grooves,;sa1d element being provided with ribbon members resting in the respective ones of said passages.

6. In,a seal. lock, a. seal1ng element consisting of 'a disk of sheet-material provided with a peripheral flange adaptedjto be', outwardly .crimpd to engage the corresponding parts of said 'car' seal.

7. In a seal lock, a sealingblement consisting of a disk of s'heetmaterial provided with diametrically opposite ribbon members and with diametrically opposite peripheral flanges between said ribbonmembers.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. p i PAUL STOREY.

Witnesses;

MARGARET 'M. GEORGE, ALMA M. BURGE'r.

Washington, D. C. 

